Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
My father was a busy man who would do six to seven films a year.
The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.
When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
One of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it's over really crucial- you know, foundational issues.
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.
Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
We are usually very busy towards the end of the year, so I know that whenever we get super busy, it must be a sign that the year is ending.
If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.
On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.
It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.
A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.
There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.
I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.
Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.
Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.
For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.
'Are you guys busy?' Juniper asked. 'Well,' I said, 'we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.' 'We're not busy,' Annabeth said.
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.
The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.
I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.'
I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
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